All articles by Jonathan Holland – Page 4
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‘La Maternal’: San Sebastian Review
Pilar Palomero follows up ‘Schoolgirls’ with this intimate portrait of young Spanish mothers
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‘Suro’: San Sebastian Review
A Spanish couple attempt to make a new life on the land in Mikel Gurrea’s feature debut
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‘Pornomelancolia’: San Sebastian Review
A porn star struggles with loneliness in Manuel Abramovich’s sensitive feature debut
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‘Wild Flowers’: San Sebastian Review
Ana Castillo soars in Jaime Rosales’ drama about a young mother bouncing around a tough man’s world
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‘Daughter Of Rage’: Toronto Review
A child struggles to find her mother in this tense debut set on a giant dump in Nicaragua’s capital city
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‘World War III’: Venice Review
Mohsen Tanabandeh is extraordinary in Houman Seyedi’s darkly comic portrait of the making of a Holocaust film
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‘Anhell69’: Venice Review
Colombian filmmaker Theo Montoya crafts a dark meditation on a nation, and a generation
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‘Beating Sun’: Venice Review
This compelling drama stars Swann Arlaud as a landscape architect obsessed with building a public garden
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‘Nezouh’: Venice Review
Soudade Kaadan’s second feature is a delicate drama about a family in war-torn Syria
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‘The March On Rome’: Venice Review
Mark Cousins charts the rise of Mussolini and fascism in perhaps his most politically explicit film to date
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‘Ramona’: Karlovy Vary Review
Lourdes Hernandez is an engrossing presence in Andrea Bagney’s drama about modern millenial angst
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‘Huesera’: Tribeca Review
In Michelle Garza Cervera’s Tribeca prize-winning feature debut, a pregnant woman with a past has a toxic encounter with the supernatural
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‘A Male’: Cannes Review
A sensitive and subtle exploration of Latin American masculinity on the streets of Bogota
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‘La Jauría’: Cannes Review
A potent look at Latin American gang culture set deep in the Colombian jungle
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‘Marcel!’: Cannes Review
A young girl vies with the family dog for her mother’s attention in this off-kilter family drama
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‘El Agua’: Cannes Review
Elena López Riera makes her daring debut in Director’s Fortnight with this magical realist romantic drama
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‘Full Of Grace’: Malaga Review
Joyful comedy starring Carmen Machi finishes Malaga Film Festival on a peal of laughter
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‘Sinjar’: Malaga Review
Three women deal with the fall-out of the Islamic State massacre in Anna M Bofarull’s powerful third feature
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‘Unfinished Affairs’: Malaga Review
Juan Miguel del Castillo’s second feature is a Spanish thriller that critiques the male violence of its genre
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‘Beyond The Summit’: Malaga Review
Two solitary climbers help each other on the arduous slopes of Annapurna in Ibon Cormenzana’s fourth feature